Sportsmen Continue To Be Turned Away At The Border(posted October - 2008)

Imagine arriving in a foreign destination ready for the trip of a lifetime only to be told by a Customs agent that you’ll have to get right back on that plane and go home. That’s what happened recently to a fisherman traveling to Canada for a fishing trip in Labrador. The reason why – a drunk driving charge in the US from 2005. Continuing subscribers know that The Hunting Report has been reporting on this practice by Immigration Canada officials for a number of years now, warning that anyone with a criminal violation of any kind in his or her background would likely be turned away at the border. This latest incident makes us think more needs to be done to warn and help sportsmen overcome this problem. Specifically, we think all booking agents and operators offering trips to Canada have a responsibility to warn would-be clients about the possibility of being turned around at the border if they have criminal violations in their past.....